In the middle of the pine forest along Dai Lai Lake (Vinh Phuc), the public can see contemporary paintings and sculptures by Vietnamese and international artists that are mostly composed right here in this pine forest. An interesting experience for art lovers.
Flamingo Museum of Contemporary Art is located in the middle of pine forest – Photo: T.DIUU
On December 26, the Flamingo Contemporary Art Museum officially opened to the public at the hill and pine forest along Dai Lai Lake of the Flamingo Dai Lai Resort (Vinh Phuc province).
Mr. Duong Quang Ung – Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vinh Phuc – said that this is the first private art museum in Vinh Phuc province. Although officially operating from now on, but the outdoor sculptures and container galleries in the pine hill over the past few years have become an attractive tourist destination of Vinh Phuc.
56 sculptures of stone, aluminum, wood, stainless steel and nearly 70 paintings with lacquer materials, oil paints, acrylic … at the museum are serious works of artistic creation throughout. 5 seasons of Art in the forest (a non-profit project held annually since 2015) by many artists from Vietnam, Canada, America, France, Japan, Nepal, Italy, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Spain…
The center of the museum is a cluster of containers designed in 2017, located on an area of 4 hectares, displaying many small paintings and sculptures. These containers are also the places where artists work, practice and discuss art during the Art in the forest seasons to create works for the museum.
Here, art lovers can admire the works of famous Vietnamese and international contemporary artists such as Nguyen Quan, Dinh Quan, Vu Kim Thu, Hoang Duy Vang, Cong Kim Hoa, Tran. Thuoc, Thai Nhat Minh, Pham Tuan Tu, Le Lang Luong, Seako Ando (Japan), Ariel Moscovici (France), Floyd Elzinga (Canada) …
Sharing with Tuoi Tre Online, painter Vu Hong Nguyen – director, founding member and curator of the museum – said that the museum is currently open to the public for free and continues to be supplemented with works through Art in the forest seasons that followed.
In the future, when there is a complete and richer collection, it is expected that in the next 5 years the museum will sell tickets, especially focusing on organizing art education tours for students.
“We want to contribute to art education to create art-loving public classes, viewing paintings and sculptures as an essential need like the need to watch movies, listen to music,” he said. Vu Hong Nguyen said.
Some works on display at the Flamingo Contemporary Art Museum:
9X sculpture of Cocoon Tran Thuoc – Photo: T.DIUU
Model work of Japanese painter Seako Ando – Photo: T.DIU
The work of Living Circuits 90 by Vu Hong Nguyen – Photo: T.ĐIUU
A sculpture hung in the pine forest – Photo: T.TUONG
A steel pine tree sculpture called Potential by Canadian artist Floyd Elzinga – Photo: T.TUONG
Space in the middle of 2 by French sculptor Ariel Moscovici – Photo: T.DIUU
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